Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1881, Page 4

4 ——— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: The Omaha Bee. Pabliched every morning, except Sunday. ) only Monday morning daily. B — TERMS BY MATL: One year........£10.00 | Three Months $3.00 Six Months... 5,00 [ One . 100 THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- Uik ery Wednesday. | TERMS POST PATD:— { One Year.... ) | Three Months.. 50 )| One "G B 8ix Months.... 1 CORRESPONDE —~All Communi- eations relating to News and Editorial mat- gers should be addressed to the Eptron or Tue Brr. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to Te OMAnA rupLisiiNe Cox- PANY, OMAHA. Drafte, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. 1 OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charge of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE. Tur president is slecping quietly according to our latest bulletin and no change has taken place, . Advice for the season—Carry a fan and an umbrella. 1~ Ohio the bar'l exercises a great influence in determining the conven- tion ballot, Couxcin BLurrs «question of the electric light. should be bestirring herself. agitating the Omaha ‘WE are itching for a fight against L some of the flagrant abuses in the management of our county «ffairs, but we must wait until the thevmometer comes down a fow points. Wity can't tho city authorities pur- chase or hire a sprinkling cart and place it under the control of tho street commissioner? Trat will make the work of sprinkling less oxpensive. HERE is another grievance for the oppressed and disfranchised. If | women had a vote in this state Governor Nance would be compelled | to put at least one woman on his staff, Tue orange and the green were very pleasantly intertwined at New § York on the 12th inst. Bishop Me- Namara attended the Orange picnic and delivered an address which was heartily cheered. Wirn the death of Justice Clifford the last appointeo of democratic presi- dents will vacate the supreme court. Justice Ficld, who 18 now a democrat, was appointed as a republican, by President Lincoln, elevition of the public service and the downfall of bossism, we hailed Mr, Robertson’s confirmation as a practi cal step toward a much needed politi- cal reform, Mr. Robertson’s con- firmation was followed by the struggle at Albany, and for a time at least his failure to qualify for the collectorship was excusable, It was announced that Mr. Robertson would enter upon the active duties of his office with the beginning of the fiscal year, His commission wasaccord- ingly issued by the department but Mr. Robertson still lingers in his seat in the New York senate. This, too, in yiolation of the plain vprovis- ions of the constitution of New York, which forbids state officers and mem- bers of the legislature from holding a federal office. The only object Col- lector Robertson can possibly have in retaining his seat in the legislature is his desire to use his office in prevent- ing the election of successors to Conk- ling and Platt, who are peraonally of- fensive or who affiliate with the fac- tion headed by Senator Conkling. We cannot condone in Mr. Robertson what we have condemned in Mr. Conkling. We have denounced Mr. Conkling’s effort to force a vindicaton of himself and a rebuke of the presi- dent by personal bulldozing, and we are forced to condemn Mr. Robertson’s course in exerting his official influence to defeat Mr. Conkling. Mr. Rob- ertson could have served the president and the friends of the administration much better by assuming the duties of his office at the New York custom house promptly with the beginning of the fiscal year. No matter what the outcome at Albany may be, Mr. Conkhng has utterly failed to rebuke the president for refusing to submit to his personal dictation in the appointment of a collector of New York, and that ought to be ample satisfaction for Mr. Robertson. When he adopts Conk- ling's methods he simply substitutes one boss for another boss, a new machine for,the old machine. And that is not what the country expected when it applauded the president’s frank re- sistance to the arrogant dictation of the imperioas Conkling. —_— Dr. Jawes M’Cosn, president of Princeton college and one of the most distinguished mental philosophers of the present age, is spending Sunday in our city on his way to the Pacific const. For nearly half a century Dr. M'Cosh’s namo has been known and honored among philosophers and edu- cationalists. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the year 1812, and re- ceived his education in the universi- ties of Edinburgh and Glasgow and distinguished himself so signally at Edinburgh that on motion ot Sir Wil- ham Hamilton he received the honorary degree of M. A. Dr. M'Cosh’s services in the disruption of the Scottish church and the establishment of the Free church are well known. His subse- Ir is all very well that passenger rates are being reduced in the east, but why don’t the Union Pacific and B. & M. magnates ¢ive us reduced passenger rates in Nebraska! Four 1 § cents a mile is an imposition. CoxkuiNg called at the White House door and left his pilt-edged o - pasteboard. He declined to come in, bocause he felt sure the president couldn't see him, and Mrs, Garfield did not have time for entertaining him, Ono women are working in the harvest fields, owing to the great quent career as a philosopher and ed- ucationalist, his professorate at Queen’s college, Belfast, and his elec- tion ns president of the collego of New Jersey, at Princeton, in 1808, need not be recounted in detail. No man in America during the last thir- teen years has entered so heartily into the work of advancing the higher education, As president of the third oldest and third largest college of this country, Dr. McCosh has shone as brilliantly as an executive officer as an instructor. He has brought to Princeton over two mil- lions and a quarter of endowments, has doubled the number of instructors and students, and by his personal scarcity of farm hands in the state. This is & practical example of wo- men's rights, which we commend to | { the attention of Mrs, Colby and her | ¥ friends, | ‘ — [ OmAHA has a rod to pickle for Gov- ernor Nance. His excellency made up his staff’ and has ignored Omaha 3 and her men in buckram entirely. f § Ex-Governor Furnas gave us Quarter- { master General Test, but now we havn't even a drum major, —_— i y Pexsion ComyissioNes Duppey makes a beginning with the new broom by dismissing one hundred clerks from | the pension bureau. In less than ninety days Commissioner Dudley will weport his force at least one hundred | clerks short, and then there will be an | opening for his Indiana friends, magnetism, eloquent addresses and able literary productions has awak- ened a new interest through the east in the subject of the secondary educa- tion, Nearly fifteen hundred gradu- ates of Princeton scattered through every state of the union will beap: willing testimony to his profound learning, his power of awakening en- thusiasm among his pupils and his untiring energy in all things that tended towards the welfare of his in- stitution, On behalf of the citizens of a com- munity and a section who are vitally interested in education, THe Ber ex- tends to Dr. McCosh and his estima- ble wife a cordial welcome to Owmaha. Two recent railroad appointments on roads far removed from Omaha have more than an ordinary interest [ Civil service reform, you know, — Tw N1y thousand emigrants will w8 Germany for America during t'@ present year. This is a very Yiwg estimate, as since 1820 we have o4 wved but 8,000,000 German emi- ¢ uts, The statistics of emigrants to our people, on account of local associations connected with the names of the promoted parties, Mr, W, B. Strong, who has been elected to the presidency of the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, is well known to many of our citizens. His rapid advancement as a railroad | W 10 left for the United States during the months of January, February and | March, 1881, show an increase of nearly 100 per centum over the fig- ures of the corresponding months of ! 1880, ——— Wues President Garfield, in the * legitimate exercise of his constitu- tional prerogative, appointed Judge Robertson collector of the New York custum house, with a dignitied but firm disregard of Senator Coukling's threats, his course received our cor- disl approval. In common with all . vepublicans who sincerely desire the man is marked evidence of his ability and merits as an executive ofticer His first service was as a telograph operator at a small railway station in Wisconsin, on the dine of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt. Paul road, From there he went into the service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quin- cy road, accepting the position of gen- eral western agent, and dividing his time equally between Omaha and Council Bluffs, and shortly afterward receiving the appointment of assistant general superintendent of the Chica- g0, Burlington & Quinoy at Chieago. A tempting offer secured him as gen- eral superintendent of the Michigan Central. A still more tempting offer brought him again to the Chi- eago, Burlington and Quincy as general superintendent. He held that position for two years, when he ac- cepted the double office of vice presi- dent and general manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, under the presidency of Thomas A. Nicker- son, Mr, Strong’s energetic manage- ment and untiring cnergy have done much to bring the Santa Fe road to its present high rank among the rail- ways of this continent. His success- ful is an that corporations own best interests when they securo the sorvices of the men of integrity and high professional and business ability. The many friends of Mr. Strong will join with the Bee in congratulating him upon his elevation to his present position, Another scarcely less grati- fying appointment to his many friends in Omaha and Council Bluffs is that of Mr. Henry C. Nutt to the presidency of the Atlantic and Pacific railway. The franchise of this company is largely in the name of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which latter company, jointly with the St. Louis and San Francisco railway company, purposes to build a road from Albu- querque along the thirty-fifth parallel to the Pacific coast. The road is now in operation to a point in Arizona ter- ritory. When completed to the Pa- cific const, it will relieve the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe of its present dependency on the Southern Pacific railroad. Mr. Nutt for fitteen years was widely known in connection with transportation on the Missouri river, and particularly in his relation to the Omaha Ferry company, was brought in close business rela- tions with our merchants. During his long residence in Council Bluffs he was intimately associated with J. W. Morse, now general passenger agent of the Union Pacific. Captain Marsh, of our city, was also an old time partnor of Mr. Nutt in the ferry business, and scores of our citizens re- member him warmly. evidence their career consult in which undertaking he OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Every country of Europe with the exception of Turkey and Russia has its two or more parties that, to a greater or less degree, direct its policy and shape its legislation, That Turkey will ever change in thisrespect seems not probable, but Russia has already two pretty well organized parties, that only await the inevitable promulgation of a constitution con- ferring upon the Russian peo- ple the same representa- tive form of government that the other nations of Europe enjoy, in order to range themselves in fierce parliamentary opposition toeach other. The one is the Panslavistic party, which has just now, under General Tgnatieff, obtained control of the gov- ernment. This party dreams of a brotherhood of all the Slavonic races, wherein all distinctions of classes shall be abolishgd, and the “old Rus- sian” systom of government, which was really that of a communistic dem- ocracy tempercd by the most absolute autocracy, have full sway. This sys- tem is known in Russia as the Mir system, and is of Aryan origin, It is based on the autonomy of the agricul- tural communities. Nearly all the peasants of Russia—that is, about threo-fourths of the whole population ~-live in villages, and each village has its own independent organ- ization. The lands belonging to a yillage are periodically distributed among its households or families, and tlie heads of these households transact all public business of the community bya viva voce vote. The general government of Russia deals only with the village as a whole, the household- ers transacting all village business themselves, even deciding all minor, oivil and criminal cases that may be brought up before them. They also collect the taxes, admit new and dis- miss old members, regulate the times of planting and harvest- ing, and the division of all arable lands into three fields to secure a regular rotation of crops. Each house- hold gets a piece of arable land, a meadow-field, and a piece of garden and house ground, It will be seen that this system is essentially com- munistic and demoeratic; and the Panslavists are inspired by the fixed idea that it is the mission of thd Sla- vonic race to spread it over the whole world in course of time, It is in fact also the system of Servia and Herze- govina, But it must be remembered that this democratic govern- ment is only for the peas- ants. Aloof from them stand the cities and nobles, the latter the great landed proprietors, agaiunst whom the hate of the peasants is mainly direct- ed. Whether Gen. Ignatieff is in earnest in his taking up the cause of the Panslavistic party admits of great doubt. Sure 1t is that no one trusts him. It is quite possible that he may merely use the Panslavistic movement to busy the peasants and feed them onhopes of political refofms until the nihilists have been sup- d. The nihilistic organization recruits its ranks from all classes of the Rus- sian people. As most of its ATURDAY, fIU[,fY 16, 1881. free-thinkers members are either or members of the varions sectarian organizations that have spruug up in Russia, the Panslavistic party has taken up the cause of the Established (Greek) Church, and wages furious war upon the unbeliev- ers and Jews. The Czar, though at present the tool of the Panslavists, is not altogether pleased with the role he is made to play; and yet he has so strongly committed himself to their cause by his recent manifesto that he can not well withdraw. Besides, to what other party should he go? The Nihilists gave him a spendid chance to join their but that he has rudely thrown away. Mean- while the German government which has not felt safe against Rus- sian military ambition ever since the accession of the present czar, is beginning to grow quiet as the Rus- sian government is turning its atten- tion to the condition of its internal affairs. Still, the nihilistic party is growing in a wonderful manner, and, as it has nearly all men of culture on its side, it would, no doubt, in a free parliamentary body, soon get the bet- ter of its opponents. side; France is floating on the crest of a wave of speculation wilder than any in New York. Stock watering is less easy in France than here, but this difficulty is surmounted in a way to put Wall street to the blush. The Credit Lyonnais has recently doubled its capital, raising it trom $20,000,000 to 840,000,000, the extra §10,000,000 being allotted to shareholders; but, a8 the shareheldere were generally without the money to pay for the new stock at par, the company loaned the money and took the shares as as col- lateral. A purchase could scarcely be easier or more disastrous all around when the crash comes. It is impossible to doubt that tho outery raised against American meat | v in Germany on the ostensible grounds of trichine, hog cholera and other dis- eases of animals has its real inspira- tion in the fear of our competition as food producers with those of the con- tinent. The Jourual des Economistes stated distinctly that the motive lead- ing the French government to pro- hibit the importation of American pork was protection. The German government is now being pushed to adopt similar measures in behalf native industry and of grown beef and pork. A lecture was recently deliver- ed in Berlin by Dr. Roloff, director of the royal veterinary school, so sweep- ing in its charges against American meat that his hearers must have been in a state of wonder that the United States have not been depopulated long ago by the ravages of disease conse- quent upon eating their own pork and beef. Tt ishardly doubtful that the question of protection to home industry lies behind this outburst of veterinary science. of home The importation of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool, from Ameri- ca, for the week ending Juue 4, was the largest for many months. Twelve steamers arrived, bringing a total of 3,512 cattle, 656 sheep, 110 hogs, 10,- 724 quarters of beef, 852 carcases of mutton and 110 dead hogs. A decision in England gives every passenger in a public conveyance a right to a seat. The right to a seat in this country is not questioned. The trouble is to get it when everbody wants to go in one car at the same time. ! 4 The Irish flax trade shows a grad- ual decrease. From the annual re- port it appears that in 1880 there was a total number of spindles in Ireland of 911,111, which in 1881 had de- creased to 870,835. The exports of linen yarns in 1880, compared with 1879 showed a decrease of five per cent in quantity and nine per cent in val- | b ue, This year the flax crop is likely to be less than last year. Tug traffic of the Suez canal is steadily increasing. The total receipts for the year 1860 amounted to 41, 820,809 francs, and the expenses, in- cluding five per cent on interest on the shares, amounted to 21,841,803 francs, This highly satisfactory re- turn allows a dividend to be declared of 15 franes, b1 centimes per share, and of 7 francs 49 centimes per foun- ders’ part. During the past year 2,- 026 vessels, representing a tonage of 4,344,519, passed through the canal. M. de Lesseps in the above report, furnishes the particulars of the nego- tiations carried on between him and the} Egyptian government for the construction of a fresh water canal from Port Said to Ismailia. A capi- tal of £8,000 has been subscribed for carrying out preliminary investiga- tions, and the total gxpense is estima- ted at about £1,200,000. The nego- tions are on the point of coming to a favorable termination. —— The census of Ireland just taken, shows a population of 5,159,849, being o decrease of 252,638 since 1871, The population is composed of 2,622,804 men and £,637,036 women, The de- cline of the last ten years was spread over all the counties except three, Antrim, Dublin, and Kerry. The religious distribution of the popula- tion was — 3,001,388 Roman Catholics, 635,670 connected with the Church of Ireland, 485,503 Presbyterians, 47,660 Methodists, and the balance was made up of all other denominations. The decrease of the Roman Catholics in the ten yoars was 198,079, of the Protestants 32,328, and of the Pres- byterians 12,145. During the last ten years dwelling-houses have disappear- ed to the number of 48,619, while |q, buildings used as accessories to farms and for business pursuits in towns have increased to the of 15,228, number Permission has been given to Gen- eral Turr by King George, of Greece, to cut a canal through the isthmus of Corinth. ''he work will be under- taken by a company established under the patronage of the indefatigable M. de Lesseps. who, it seems, has long had his eye upon the isthmus of Cor- inth as affording him another oppor- tunity of gratifying his passion for great canal enterprises. The com- pany will begin work upon the canal in the spring of 1882, and expects to finish it in flve years. The isthmus of Corinth is about nine miles in width, and the expense of building the canal is estimated at about $12,- 600,000. The qnestion is, where the ships, which, by passing through the canal are going to make it a profitable undertaking, are coming from. Ships plying between the Adriatic and the eastern ports situated north of Smyrna would save from about eight to twelve hours by passing through the canal. Ships plying between other ports west of the Grecian peninsula and the shores of Asia Minor would not save enough time to make it worth their while to submit to the canal toll. It is, therefore. not extremely probable that the Corinthian canal can be made a profitable enterprise. Not at Half Mast. Wave high! wave high! thou gallant flag, To zephyr breeze or blast; Vave, symbol of our country dear, E'en atthe topmost mast, Wave high! wave high! thy folds display, Nor down our spirits cast; Unfurl thy beauties to the air, But not at the half-mast. High, high, T see thee waving yet; Oh, Father, hear our prayer; Up to the topmast let it wav And keep, oh, keep it there. Symbol of life or else in death; The crisis soon will pass; Life, with the flag at the topmost head, Or death at the half-mast. Life! life! a suppliant nation cries; Oh, Father hear our prayer, Life, with the flag at the topmost head, Hope, joy, and not despair. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Dora Stuart will be with Gus Williams again next season. Effie Ellsler up\vearcd recently in San Francisco as Rosalind. Mr. Frank Chanfrau will open his sea- son at the Boston Theatre. Pauline Markham is playing in the “Babes in the Wood” in Boston. Sarah Bernhardt says she is sick of comedy, and will play it no more, Mr. Lawrence Barret will return to this country on the Arizona realy in August, It is stated that Boito's ‘‘Mefisofele” has already been produced at 30 opera houses. Gilmore's band is the chief attraction at Manhattan Beach. The music furnished is among the best that can be heard in America, Maud Granger’s husband, Al. Follin, is going on the stage. He will play the Scotch tourist in “The Galley Slave,” next season. Miss Annie Louise Cary has declined offers from Messrs, Mapleson and Strakosh to sing in opera. She intends to accept concert engagements only. Mr. Wallack's company will perform in a series of old comedies Afurim' their com- ing Boston engagement, The first of these W‘:]l probably be ‘“The School for Scandal.” When a Deadwood actor fails to give satisfaction to an audience they simply shoot him, have the body dragged off the stage, yell ““down in front” ant the play £oes on. The cable has already announced that ' favorite actress in St. make her appearance in xt autumn, Oneof her chief parts is Adrienne Lecouvreur. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who returns to America in August for a short visit after an absence of over two years, has re- ceived an offer from: the manager of La Seala to sing in Milan during the carnival Heason next year, Tt is likely that **Michael Strogoff” will e produced at Niblo's early in August. This theatre is now closed in deference to the president’s condition and to the pub- lic's lack of regard for the latest version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Miss Mary Anderson will add two new plays to her repertory next season—*‘Pyg- malion and Galatea” and “The Daughter of Roland,” The second of these is an adaption-of M. de Bornier's drama. “La Fille pe Roland.” Both selections are ex- cellent. Mr. and Mrs, W, J. Florence, who sail for New York on the 28d of August, will bring with them three new plays—*Home Aguin,” & drama in three acts, by H, A. Jones; “I'he Macaws,” s three act comedy, by Mr, Yardley, and “The Captain,” a three act comedy, by G. K. Simms. They are all said to be first-class and full of promise, The Florences open at the Globe 'heatre, Boston, in September. The New York Herald's London corres- pondent . interviewed Mme, i, who said: “I shall not delay my visit, which has been long projected and anticipated. I wish to visit the home of my youth while my voice is still at its best. They will then hear what I am the ‘.mem. moment, and judge for themselves the truth of what has been said about me. I would not like Americans to say Patti has come mere y to get money. want to go. back while wy powers of voice are unimpaired.” Colonel Mapleson has arran, ged with the impressario Neumann of Berlin for the vepresentation of Wagners Trilogy in London next May “with the German artis- tes. Herr Wagmer's persoual direction of the orchestra iv hoped for, Mr, H, J. Sargeant has engaged M'lle. ‘Rhea, the orincipal actress at the French Imperial Theatre in St. Potersburg, for & tour of the United States, commenciog in No- vewber next, to play in English Adrienne Lecouvreur, Cun'l’; and other charac. ters. The many admirers of Mr. Rafael Joseffy will be interested to learn that he has decided to become an American citizen. He has already taken the preparatory teps Lo this end, having received from the court his i numpen in the process of naturaliza- tion. Mr, Joseffy, it is understood, has completed a work on which he has been engaged for sowe time past, his first piano concerto, with orchestra, and will produce it during the coming season, He is passing the summer at Darein, Conn,, studying a number of compositions which he will add to his already extensive repertoire. Miss Minnie Hauk has been playing a remarkably successful engagement of twenty nights in Holland. She was orig- inally engaged for only twonights at the Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, but the holises were 80 crowded and enthusins- tic that the term was extended to twenty nights, Her Elsa was so admired that she had to repeat it five times at Amster. am. Mr, Carl Rosa has offered Miss Hauk an engagement for his English fopers _season in London next winter, and Mr. Mapleson wishes her to come to America, HONEY FOR 1HE LADIES. Pink tinted mits are fashionable, Flower recklets are still in vogue. Delicate monse-fray kid shoes are in fashion, A new device fora lace pin isa cow jumping over the moon. Delicate jet coral fringe is very pretty on black grenadine for light morning. Corsets for summer wear are made of net, and also made exceedingly short. Flesh colored silk stockings embroider- ed with crimson rosebuds are very fashion- able, A live canary bird tied toa bouquet is the proper thing to give to a, young lady in Few Pork. Braceletsmade of old silver medals; link- ed together with silver beads, are the fancy of the moment, Tinted satin sandals embroidered with tiny pear] beads are greatly favored by young ladies who dance. White Russian lace and bows of gay satin ribbon from the most effective trim- ming for cotton satine costumes, The “humble field daisy” is just now creating quite a furore in the fashionuble world and is worn by the million, A young lady is giving whistling enter- tainments in the ofl regions, Anything to raise the wind during the dull season. Bridget being told to put a little nut- mey into the rice-pudding, picked out the smallest one in the box and threw it in. Black velvet bracelets, fastened by tiny buckles of French paste, are again fashion- ably worn with delicate’ evening dresses. Jersey Bity servant girls catch | burglars by the throat and hold 'em for half an hour without extra charge to the family, Some of the new pins and bonnet orn: ments show grifiin, sphinx or medi heads in bronze enamel and Roman gold. The newest lace-pin is a_miniature pea- cock in profile, made of real peacock feath- ers and mounted on gold, With ruby eyes. A few daring young ladies have appear- ed on the streets with the dainty wnlkinu cl_uicu which are carried abroad by English girls, A female undertaker thrivesin Phila- delphia. Gradually all professions and means of making « living are opening up towomen, A New Jersy widow could only earn six dollars per week at the washtub, bu soon as she became a_clairvoyant her come increased to sixty, Plaster of paris cats are no longer con- sidered tony enough for mantel ornaments, but they must s'cat! and give place to crockery dogs with yellow eyes, The small old fashioned shawls of white china crape embroidered with heavy silk floss in each corner, and edged with white nettled silk fringe, are again in vogue. Spanish jewelry showing large leaves and flopers tinted in colors of pale pink and werald green and studded with fine spark- ling gems is just now in great l|umm|t1‘. The latest French extravagance in hosiery is silk_openwork stockings, hand. somely embroid:red and having delicate lace tops tinted a_deeper shade than the color of the stocking. If it makes a white woman bewitching tostick a piece of black court-plaster on her face why wouldn't a piece of white laster make 4 black woman appear ely charming? There are five women to one man in Hol- yoke, Mass,, and the poor men have to ice cream offices by way of the back window, and they have to carry revolvers when they go to picnics. A Mancheste ¢ bequeaths a surgeon £25,000 on condition that he should claim her body and embalm it, and ‘“‘that he should once in every year look upon her face, two witnesses being present,” Vassar has one smart_girl who will in the hereafter be heard of in women's rights societies. She described “‘straw” as being a hollow thing with a ten cent man on one end of it, nm? a twenty cent drink on the other end, Some of the latest French hats are ac- companied by long gauze veils, They are to be drawn over the face, pinned at the back with some pretty oroament, the ends crossed, hrought around to the front again and caught together with a flower, “What a rough fellow that Sniggins petulently l‘xuhlimed the Hopedals after a struggle with the aforesaid Snig- gins at ‘Copenhagen.” “Ho nearly smothered me!” *“‘And did you kiss him for his smother?” asked the " other miss, naively. ““Are you engaged?” said a ventleman to a young lady from Marysville at a ball the other evening, “I was, but if that Pete Johnson thinks I'm going to sit here ane im squeeze that freckled-faced Wil- rI's hand all the evening, he'll be mistaken, solitaire or no solitaire?” The gentleman explained, and went out to get air. A New York girl stuffed the sleeve of an old coat with straw and placedit around her waist s she sat in the bay window wrapped in the soft June twilight. It looked all right and natural from a dis. tance, and broke the neighbor girls all up with envy, but the satisfaction she derived from the Hug was about as thin as strained moonshine, A pretty and graceful style of hair- dressing has & bow ot hair falling low on O e S 8 e a silver buckle set with brilliants, In front the hair falls in soft light rings over the forehead, and is dressed in waved bands and caught up on one side with a small kmot of bair held by e light aigret o of white feathers tipped with silver. A San Francisco woman refused to ac- cept a portrait which an artist had painted for her, on the grounds that it did not do her justice. For revenge he heightened the bad ‘minu by retouching, so that the picture became "o caricature, thoush re- maining & likeness. The work was then put on exhibition in a store window on a principal street. A suit for damages is to be brought by the woman. As beaded bounet crowns are now very fashionable, and the handsomest of them are rather’ expensive, many ladies who have time prefer working thelr own, Tulle or silk net is used for the foundaticn, The design to be used must first be traced on transparent paper or linen, and vhe net tacked over it, the pattern being worked in fine cut beads of either jet, gold, amber, emerald green, or in the delicate shades of heliotrop, china blue, or wholly of pearl and crystal ! IMPIETIES. A revision of the birth dates in the fam- ily registers of the Bible would make tho Dok more popula with maidens of ncer: tain age. “Where are you golng this summer?” is the query at the head of religious trac and Juat. as the reader makes up his. il t0 go to Long Branch he dissovérs. that he ia on bis way to Brimstone Bay. 10’ Kind o' mean tobit & mAn under the ribs that ey, The following, writes a carrespondent from Little Kook, Arks {0 said Lo bve oriinaied there:* A wibcr culed up ) e senate with prayer repeal fhe Tord's Praven” Wiaioniey ooo e tleman turned to another and esid, ‘He «tole that, and 171 bet on it. T heard the same iden expressed two years ago ata funeral in Eureka.'” An unetuons-looking fellow with a white choker, and his face in the bluest bloom of ing, is filling his pockets very fast in Central New York by selling cop- jes of the Old Testament rebound, for the New Revision, It is said he ropes them all in except the editors A young lady who wa# enamored of a member of & church choir in an adjoining village took a friend to hear him sing. On the way home, after the services, she ven- tured to ask what he thought of him, *I think he would make a splendid auc- tioneer,” was the answer. Timpkins says his church ought to or- gauize n base ball nine, They have a man who bawls firet and second base. The or- get a short stop on the ister, see'ng he has a good field, pitches into_the congregation, who have to catch it.—[Harvard La A congregation jn Indianapolis owing a debt of 2125, but having no real estate ex- cept n cemetory, the sheriff has made a levy onit. It i« advertised for sale and will probably be put up_at auction. Sec- pm|-fnm! tombstonesand hearses have been hut on the market ere this, but second- [and graveyards are an absolute novelty, A Chicago firm is sending out circulars offering to furnish sermons ‘‘printed on fine, clear, white paper, with bold face type,” ete., to ministers and students who ‘ifll send their address. The firm sends a n,m:lmun sermon and proposes to furnish “others to order from a list of 300 dis- courses, on different subjects at the low price of thirty cents each. The sermons Erewarranted to be non-denominational and to be so 8- nt that two ministers in the same section will mot have the same ser- mons,"” “Sweet budding verm of dawning man- hood,” the new pastor said, holding out his hand to the youngest son of his hostess, ‘I love the innocent sunshine of childhood that plays over his candid face like the dawn of a summer morn.” And just then the child 1aid down itsslab of bread, butter and asses and swabbed off its dimpled hands on the pastor’s new pearl colored cassimeres, and_mopped its candid mouth on his Prince Albert coat; and the girl who let the minister out says she is wil take after davits that he svelled dawn anr_as he went down the steps. It may be. We are all human, except Bob Toombs and Jeff Davis, and such things cannot be and not overcome us like a summer cloud. ‘What, ho?! Mazurka, bring hither the jumblepore and a pitcher of hot water and alem n and three glasses, It's time we shaved.—[Burlington Hawkeye. ganist can always n, while the EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Ex-Secretary Evart's twin sons graduates of Harvard and Yale, At the reeent examination at Princeton college 122 new students were admitted. Large nnmbers of young men and women are becoming teachers in England, and a great reduction in be imminent. The degree of ‘‘Master in Pharmacy” is r at Michivan Univer- of the first degree who show special are S aries is said to an free schools have about 7,200 scholars, 2,800 of whow are natives., There are fourteen select schools, with an attendance of 1,300, in which the English language is used and o tuition fee of 25 charged. The board of regents of Michigan w versity have established a school of pol cal science, in connection with that institu- tion, with @ three years' course of study. Judize Cooley, the constitutional riter, will be at its head. The authorities of Victoria University at Manchester, England, have decided not to insist upon classical knowledge, except B thia oot iy Ll rveainYar o s Lhave made divers new regulations for degrees in science and law. West Virginia, which in 1865 had only 1865 school districts, 133 school houses, teachers and an attendance of pu- bils, has now 3520 districts, 8337 school houses, 4224 teachers and an attendance of 142,750 pupils, In ‘65 only twenty coun- lam of the state had any fren schocta A new course of study has been adopted in_ the public schools of Utica, N. Y., which reduces the time required from six- teen years to twelve. The primary grade i8 to take two years instead of four; the intermediate grade three years instead of four; the reduction in the advanced school course is from four years to three; and the last change is the establishment of distinct courses in the academy, for two, three and four years respectively, with corresponding diplomas. Latin and French are to be dropped from the course of the Female High School at Louisville, Ky., and drawing and book- keeping substituted, A mormal depart- ment for the training of graduates as teachers is to be added. In the Male High School French and Greek have been drop- ped, and only so much Latin will be taught as can be managed by the principal. In the place of the bmncimn given up a chair of mechanics arts will be established. The salaries of fourth grade teachers in the col- ored schools have been raised from 31 to £35 a month, An enthusiastic young lady (says a late writer) who, long before the days of edu- cation codes, established a private physio- logical class for girls, received from the mother of one of them the following com- munication: *‘Miss ——, please do not teach my Mary Anuany more about her inside, "It will never do her no good; and it's rude.” This was a very darkened mother indeed, and the light of modern science has taught us that not only is some acquaintance with our insides good for us, but thut it is compatible with perfect volityness, Still it is s long and difficult study to make thoroughly, and it is one in which onlr a little learning, about as much as & vhild below thirteen could earry, might prove more dangerous than useful, Fred. Amos, Tyler street, Rochester, writes: “Your SPRING BLossOM is won- derful; I never used anything that acted so well on the bowels, and at the same time was 80 free from the drastic properties of medicines usnally sold for the purpese.” Price 50 cents; trial bottles 10 cents, DYING BY INCHES. Very otten we seo a person suffer- ing from some form of kidney com- plaint and is gradually dying by inches, This no longer need to be so, for Electric Bitters will positively cure Bright's discase, or any disease of the kidneys or uriniary organs. They aro especially adapted to this class of discases, acting ~ directly on the Stomach and Liver at the same time, and will speedily cure where every other remedy has failed. Sold at fifty cents a bottle, by Ish & Me- Mahon. 3 —_— Notice to Contractors. Sealed pronesals will be recelved by the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County, Nebraska, until Wednesday, July 21th, A, D., 1881, at 2 o'clock p. m., Tor the erection of' of & court house building at Omaba, in sald county, ih accordance With Llans “ind spocliatfdng e by E. E yers, architect of Detroit, Michigan, and In the county clerk’s office at now on file Omalia. Each bid must be accompanied by a good and sufticient bond in the sum of tei thous- and dollars, ($10.000), conditioned the bidder will enter into a coutract, and give & and suflicient bond, should {he contract awarded him. AAM‘;?Y of the l;fi&‘ll'llcall\ins a‘lll llLl'm(:‘llr; wi upon application to the clerk at Ulm,llu. eb., and in all cases must accompany proposals, The board reserves the right to reject any o all bids. g By order of the Board of County Commis= sioners. OMAHA, Neb., June 25th, 1881 JOHN B. MANCHESTEE, / q